A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

Health experts should prepare for smallpox, the only human disease ever to have been eradicated, to make a reappearance domestically and internationally, a new report says. The report from the ...

It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic ...

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined. Smallpox mortality falls between 20% and 50%. Until ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

TNX-801 is up to 100,000-fold less virulent than live smallpox vaccine strains and a single dose provides robust immunogenicity and protection against mpox and rabbitpox (more than one year) in ...

The vaccine is administered percutaneously using a bifurcated needle that is dipped into the vaccine solution; the skin is then pricked several times in the upper arm. The Food and Drug Administration ...

The title of this recently published book captures its contents like a haiku: scourge, once, future, threat, and smallpox. The 2 book-ended words, scourge and smallpox, precisely enclose 3 simple ...

or another virus is used in a bioterrorism plot against the country, said Richard McGarvey, spokesman for the state Department of Health. While an anthrax scare put the country on alert last year, an ...